[newbie] Psion utilities for Mdk 9.2
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I continue to be a big fan of the Psion 5mx, and would love to have it operating with Mdk 9.2. I've found utilites for Mdk 8.2, both plptools and kpsion... Anyone have any suggestions? Paul -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with MultiZilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/2BCWq+i2H9Bw1yoRAiUoAJ0edS2ZPB7zDxPhYZbgZhuFKjXaAwCg23lO Jm/AZwhxAz8ii89tcBQOjbk= =S+ME -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Complete failure
On Friday 05 December 2003 04:05 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > Today I had a complete computer failure, nothing, not even a bios boot > screen. > > > I downloaded a whole batch of emails, dealt with them, and went away > leaving d4x downloading a file. > > When I came back, nothing but a blank screen, I touched a key, and a > mandrake boot script appears, hung at fsck, y/n , I say yes, it > completes the fsck and then hangs again.Nothing further , just a blank > black screen , no script at all. > > Panic, > > Ctrl+alt+del ineffective > alt+SysRq+B ineffective > Have to shut power off(reset buttlon ineffectual) > > I power up again, and nothing but a blank black screen not even a bios > boot screen, and in addition 4 red LED mobo display which manual say's > > 4 RED LED's = System Power On, The D-LED will hang here if processor is > damaged or not installed Properly. > > This suggest's that it's curtains for my processor, AMD Athlon Palamino, > but before I condem it and go rushing off to replace it I thought I had > better ask first if there is anything I should do to test it first. > > Any suggestions welcomed, as this is my first processor failure. Got to www.directron.com and check out their troubleshooting stuff in the support area. It is a great help in this kind of thing...it helped me in a similar situation. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Realplayer Stillborn Under 9.2
On Wednesday 10 December 2003 02:09 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: > On Wednesday 10 December 2003 01:37 pm, Graham Watkins wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > The installation fiasco continues ... > > > > Last night I thought I would put RealPlayer 8 on my recently installed > > 9.2. However, having done so, when I started it up, I got mostly black > > space where the program should be and I had to kill it to get rid of it. > > > > There are no error messages when I start it from the command line > > (whether as graham or as root), so I don't know what's causing it. > > Tried downloading a new .rpm from Real but the result was the same. > > > > I know it's not a unique problem because I found some discussion of it > > in another forum but no-one had come up with an answer. Have any of you > > guys come across this problem and if so how did you fix it. > > > > Life without BBC playback is inconceivable. I could be going back to > > 9.0 if this can't be fixed. Is it me, or is MDK 9.2 more buggy than > > previous versions? > > Well, I get the same error when I run realplay as well, but I am on 9.1. I > have found that killing the artsd process under the KDE desktop allows > realplay to work fine and then you just need to restart artsd after you are > done with realplay. I suspect that this is because realplay needs to send > sound directly to the sound device which is already in use by artsd. > > One potential solution is to create a sybolic link to /dev/dsp called > something else and tell Realplay to use that for sound. I haven't had time > to try it yet to see if that works. Exactly how is this last accomplished? I understand the creation of symlinks, but not how to tell RP to use it instead. Thanks, Joseph Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] How to run a Win program now in Wine?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Thanks to deedee's simple instructions, I've managed to install a Windows program into Wine (MessageCleaner...and it's working! :-)). At the moment, MC is still running since its installation. I'm wondering though...after I log out, then log back into Mandrake, how do I run this particular program? Can it be done only via command? (if so, what's the command?). Or, can I also create a shortcut to it? Thanks! - -- Melissa -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/2AgUjVbXUvsE8ukRAmh/AKD+azr48TvfOqrnRbVJSCRDh5Aa5ACbBMRE AfHF8gGBuyOG6zQ9+UlJgDU= =0Bn4 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Connecting Zaurus 5500 to MDK 9.1
I'm trying to get my Zaurus 5500 to connect to my Mandrake 9.1 box (using the USB connection). I followed the instructions on some site, but it didn't seem to work. Anybody here made it work? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] no more mail
On Wednesday 10 December 2003 04:21 pm, song wrote: > am I in the newbie mailing list? This is the place. It is the only place anywhere near this place that looks like the place, so it must be the place. Welcome Aboard. : ) -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Modem troubles
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 10 December 2003 06:50 pm, deedee wrote: > Did you figure that out? If not, open a terminal as a user (not as > root) and type > $ wine [path to]messagecleaner.exe Thank you deedee! The Windows program I installed (MessageCleaner) is even working! :-) - -- Melissa -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/1+VrjVbXUvsE8ukRAmREAJ0Th8BsVmC+T992BRIOYn6wxA5hLACgrY/8 kZXPsB5EoK9bc/kxA088Zek= =qf2L -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] login display managers
On Wednesday 10 December 2003 02:48 am, Paul Kaplan wrote: > I'm having some odd problems with kdm and xdm on 9.2. > > If I configure the system to boot to kdm, it launches fine. After entering > a username and password, the dialog box disappears, showing the default > background, then the screen blanks for a few seconds and then X restarts > and I'm back to the kdm login screen. > > With xdm, I can login and launch a window manager just fine, but when I > logout from the WM, I am returned to a blue screen with a partially drawn > login dialog box and a frozen system. None of the virtual terminals are > available and I can't ctrl-alt-backspace to kill X. The only way out is a > hard reboot. > > I've tried reinstalling kdm but nothing changes. > > Any thoughts? > Paul Sounds like a video problem to me. Is this a notebook with an ATI Mobility card, by any chance? e. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] no more mail
am I in the newbie mailing list? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Moving from windows to linux in the enterprise
Somebody scribbled about [newbie] Moving from windows to linux in the enterprise >With the success of My Mandrake 9.0 Intranet server, My boss > recently expressed an interest in moving our entire company's IT > from Windows servers & desktops to either: > >A) a Totally linux based solution. I favor this (obviously) but think it is best approached in stages, with each defined function addressed in turn -- once for servers, then databases, etc. In other words, try and get one "module" of your overall IT converted to Linux and use it for a while, then attack the next module in turn. I wouldn't recommend a whole hog mass conversion. Conversion takes time and you need to keep both systems running in parallel so you can work the bugs out. As someone who has had some experience in data conversions (mostly with databases, Oracle and such) and also in client-server (mostly as a user, not as an administrator) I think Linux could do well in both situations. When I worked at Entex, for instance, we used Windows clients (Citrix for instance) which could be replaced with Linux versions (in fact I believe there is a Linux version of Citrix) for data presentment, reporting, and such. For your Internet needs (DNS,bind, email etc.) Linux is clearly going to be a better solution. Unfortunately, I've been in several work environments where I wanted to convert to Linux on the job and the IT people didn't think it was a good idea -- but then I'm not really an IT person -- most of my job experience has been in data entry & customer service & collections :). But I've done more IT stuff on the side with each job. >[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] PROBLEM WITH IP ADDRESS
On Wednesday 10 December 2003 08:06 pm, Adolfo Bello wrote: > On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 13:45, Nestor Castro wrote: > > Adolfo Bello wrote: > > >On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 12:32, Nestor Castro wrote: > > >>Derek Jennings wrote: > > >>>On Wednesday 10 Dec 2003 12:22 pm, Nestor Castro wrote: > > >>>snip > > but this is working for everyone else in my subnet,,and I worked just > > fine with Mandrake 8.1 > > This really confuses me. Do you have only one network card in your box? > > I am also a newbie with Linux but it surprises me that ifconfig is > showing eth1 and no eth0. Is it possible? > > Again, do you have only one network card in your box? If so, I am > totally lost. Me too, if you only have one network card in your box, are you using a switch to connect all together? Even so, the gateway box needs to have an eth0 for the internet and an eth1 for the LAN. Or you tell your comp to share by typing drakgw then enter in a su console. Follow the wizard, but I am still not sure how this could work without two net cards. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] PROBLEM WITH IP ADDRESS
Adolfo Bello wrote: On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 12:32, Nestor Castro wrote: Derek Jennings wrote: On Wednesday 10 Dec 2003 12:22 pm, Nestor Castro wrote: snip noop. I can`t ping outside my network, I think the problem is with my gateway address, but is correctly defined in the Drakconnect. I solved the problem concerning the PING in my LAN, by editing /etc/hosts.allow and All: 192.168.147.0 I suppose the problem is with my gateway because when I use route -n sends me this information..: Destination Gateway Genmask FlagsMetric RefUseIface 10.5.66.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 u00 0 eth1 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0255.0.0.0 u 0 0 0 lo 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 u00 0 eth1 I checked /etc/sysconfig/network and the information is Hostname uabc.com(my machine) networking =yes gateway=192.168.147.10 (the one defined in Drakcontrol) gatewaydev=eth1 I`m getting close, I know ..or..I hope. Thanks for your help I am confused. How is this all connected? Where is the 10.5.66.0 subnet that appears in your route? the 10.5.66.0 subnet is my LAN, but one computer with IP 192.168.147.10 works as a gateway What does ifconfig show? eth1 Link encap: Ethernet HWaddr 00:0B:DB:74:3F:A1 inet addr: 10.5.66.66Bcast:10.5.66.255 Mask: 255.255.255.0 UP BROADAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX:Packets:7688987 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:4910174 errors:0 dorpped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txquelen:100 RX bytes:2370586634 TX bytes:480970958 lo Link encap: Local Lopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask 255.255.255.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 mETRIC:1 rx packets:1105 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:1105 erros:0 dropped:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 It won't work. The gateway and your computer have to be in the same subnet. Given that your mask is 255.255.255.0, your gateway should be something like 10.5.66.X. HTH Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com but this is working for everyone else in my subnet,,and I worked just fine with Mandrake 8.1 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] PROBLEM WITH IP ADDRESS
On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 12:32, Nestor Castro wrote: > Derek Jennings wrote: > > >On Wednesday 10 Dec 2003 12:22 pm, Nestor Castro wrote: > >snip > > > > > >>noop. I can`t ping outside my network, I think the problem is with my > >>gateway address, but is correctly defined in the Drakconnect. > >> > >>I solved the problem concerning the PING in my LAN, by editing > >>/etc/hosts.allow and All: 192.168.147.0 > >> > >> > >>I suppose the problem is with my gateway because when I use route -n > >>sends me this information..: > >>Destination Gateway > >>Genmask FlagsMetric RefUseIface > >>10.5.66.0 0.0.0.0 > >>255.255.255.0 u00 0 eth1 > >>127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0255.0.0.0 > >> u 0 0 0 lo > >>0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 > >>0.0.0.0 u00 > >>0 eth1 > >> > >>I checked /etc/sysconfig/network > >> > >>and the information is > >> > >>Hostname uabc.com(my machine) > >>networking =yes > >>gateway=192.168.147.10 (the one defined in Drakcontrol) > >>gatewaydev=eth1 > >> > >> > >>I`m getting close, I know ..or..I hope. > >> > >>Thanks for your help > >> > >> > >I am confused. How is this all connected? > > > >Where is the 10.5.66.0 subnet that appears in your route? > > > the 10.5.66.0 subnet is my LAN, but one computer with IP 192.168.147.10 > works as a gateway > > >What does ifconfig show? > > > eth1 Link encap: Ethernet HWaddr 00:0B:DB:74:3F:A1 > inet addr: 10.5.66.66Bcast:10.5.66.255 Mask: > 255.255.255.0 > UP BROADAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX:Packets:7688987 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:4910174 errors:0 dorpped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txquelen:100 > RX bytes:2370586634 TX bytes:480970958 > > lo Link encap: Local Lopback > inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask 255.255.255.0 > UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 mETRIC:1 > rx packets:1105 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:1105 erros:0 dropped:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 > It won't work. The gateway and your computer have to be in the same subnet. Given that your mask is 255.255.255.0, your gateway should be something like 10.5.66.X. HTH -- Adolfo A. Bello B. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Make your posts more effective. Learn how at http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] PDF Import Filter for KWord
Hi all, We were discussing ways of editing pdf files on another list, when one of the list members said he could import pdf files into kword. Whenever I try to do that, I get a message saying that kword can't import pdf files. However, kword's web site definitely lists the pdf import filter as included. I'm using Mandrake 9.1 and installed koffice from the PowerPack CDs. It appears to be the latest binary for a stable version of koffice. Is anyone else able to access the pdf import filter? If so, did you do anything special to be able to do that? Thanks for any information you can give me. deedee -- Registered Linux User #327485 Visit "WordStar & GNU/Linux" http://www.wordstar2.com Also, see WordStar Users Group http://www.wordstar2.com/cbabbage/wordstar __ McAfee VirusScan Online from the Netscape Network. Comprehensive protection for your entire computer. Get your free trial today! http://channels.netscape.com/ns/computing/mcafee/index.jsp?promo=393397 Get AOL Instant Messenger 5.1 free of charge. Download Now! http://aim.aol.com/aimnew/Aim/register.adp?promo=380455 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] VMWare and Samba
I have an update on the problem. Now when I try to access R-and-E in Windows I get a dialog that says: R-and-E is not accessible No permission for resource I think I might just need to run VMWare as root... sounds like a plan I suppose. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] PROBLEM WITH IP ADDRESS
Derek Jennings wrote: On Wednesday 10 Dec 2003 12:22 pm, Nestor Castro wrote: snip noop. I can`t ping outside my network, I think the problem is with my gateway address, but is correctly defined in the Drakconnect. I solved the problem concerning the PING in my LAN, by editing /etc/hosts.allow and All: 192.168.147.0 I suppose the problem is with my gateway because when I use route -n sends me this information..: Destination Gateway Genmask FlagsMetric RefUseIface 10.5.66.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 u00 0 eth1 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0255.0.0.0 u 0 0 0 lo 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 u00 0 eth1 I checked /etc/sysconfig/network and the information is Hostname uabc.com(my machine) networking =yes gateway=192.168.147.10 (the one defined in Drakcontrol) gatewaydev=eth1 I`m getting close, I know ..or..I hope. Thanks for your help I am confused. How is this all connected? Where is the 10.5.66.0 subnet that appears in your route? the 10.5.66.0 subnet is my LAN, but one computer with IP 192.168.147.10 works as a gateway What does ifconfig show? eth1 Link encap: Ethernet HWaddr 00:0B:DB:74:3F:A1 inet addr: 10.5.66.66Bcast:10.5.66.255 Mask: 255.255.255.0 UP BROADAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX:Packets:7688987 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:4910174 errors:0 dorpped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txquelen:100 RX bytes:2370586634 TX bytes:480970958 lo Link encap: Local Lopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask 255.255.255.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 mETRIC:1 rx packets:1105 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:1105 erros:0 dropped:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 And is there an eth0 ? If so is it enabled? yes, I have an eth0 but I disabled it. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't get default gateway to work properly
On Wednesday 10 December 2003 05:53 pm, Steve Wechsler wrote: > Just installed Mandrake 9.0. Why not 9.2 ? > When I went through the install procedure I > told it to use a static IP, and it then asked me for my default gateway. > After the setup was completed, the default gateway didn't seem to be > working properly - I couldn't ping anything outside my LAN. So I did a > route add default gw gateway_ip, and that seemed to work, which means that > it can now access DNS. However, ping and traceroute (other services like > FTP work) don't seem to get returned to my machine. My windows machine on > the same network has no such problems. Also, I wonder if the default > gateway will be maintained once my machine is rebooted. Please help. You want to add your gateway in /etc/sysconfig/network You want to have an entry like: GATEWAY=1.2.3.4 Sunny Dubey Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linuxconf... where is it?
On Wednesday 10 Dec 2003 10:42 pm, Eric Geater 11/26/03 wrote: > Hello, all! > > I have Mandrake 9.2. It's up and running, works very well, relatively > few problems. However, I have been instructed to use Linuxconf to > configure my external modem for dialing out. I type it in as root, but > "no package named linuxconf" appears. I then do "urpmi -y linuxconf", > but it also declares it an unknown package. I just got through with > 139mb of updates from mirror.secsup.org and did my updatedb, but STILL > no knowledge about linuxconf. And everything I read on Google says it > should already be part of a working package in Linux. > > Care to enlighten a newbie? I really need to know if linuxconf is > necessary for working on a modem, or whatever else I'd ever need it for, > and also how to get it if I can't RPM it. > > Thanks! > > Eric linuxconf is in the contrib folder of any mandrake mirror. The reason it is hidden away in contrib is because it is not recommended for use in Mandrake anymore. It is a RedHat tool. The reason why it is not recommended was discussed recently (on the expert list I think) check the archives for details. If you want to configure your external modem just run the wizard in Mandrake control Centre>Networking and then to dial run kppp (assuming you have kdenetwork-kppp installed) derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Can't get default gateway to work properly
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of H.J.Bathoorn > > On Wednesday 10 December 2003 23:53, Steve Wechsler wrote: > > Just installed Mandrake 9.0. When I went through the install procedure I > > told it to use a static IP, and it then asked me for my default gateway. > > After the setup was completed, the default gateway didn't seem to be > > working properly - I couldn't ping anything outside my LAN. So I did a > > route add default gw gateway_ip, and that seemed to work, which > means that > > it can now access DNS. However, ping and traceroute (other services like > > FTP work) don't seem to get returned to my machine. My windows > machine on > > the same network has no such problems. Also, I wonder if the default > > gateway will be maintained once my machine is rebooted. Please help. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Steve > Add your nameserver to /etc/resolv.conf as su/root, thus: > echo nameserver gateway_ip > /etc/resolv.conf > > That way everything should work. On reboot the route will be > lost. To set that > permanently run "drakconnect" and set it there. Thanks for your response. I had already used drakconnect to set up the network, and resolv.conf had been populated correctly when I experimented with using DHCP instead of a static IP. After a reboot IP lookups and routing are no longer working at all. resolv.conf is still correct and the route command shows no routes except to 192.168.10.0 (the gateway is 192.168.10.1) and 127.0.0.0 Thanks, Steve Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linuxconf... where is it?
On Wednesday 10 December 2003 23:42, Eric Geater 11/26/03 wrote: > Hello, all! > > I have Mandrake 9.2. It's up and running, works very well, relatively > few problems. However, I have been instructed to use Linuxconf to > configure my external modem for dialing out. I type it in as root, but > "no package named linuxconf" appears. I then do "urpmi -y linuxconf", > but it also declares it an unknown package. I just got through with > 139mb of updates from mirror.secsup.org and did my updatedb, but STILL > no knowledge about linuxconf. And everything I read on Google says it > should already be part of a working package in Linux. > > Care to enlighten a newbie? I really need to know if linuxconf is > necessary for working on a modem, or whatever else I'd ever need it for, > and also how to get it if I can't RPM it. > > Thanks! > > Eric Go to the plf site http://plf.zarb.org/ and use easy-urpmi to set up a "contrib" source (and a plf one while you're there:)). That's where you'll find the linuxconf rpms and lots more to boot:) Good luck, HarM -- Registered Linux User #197998 FSF Associate Member #901 ICQ #146191606 Mandrake HowTo's & more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't get default gateway to work properly
On Wednesday 10 December 2003 23:53, Steve Wechsler wrote: > Just installed Mandrake 9.0. When I went through the install procedure I > told it to use a static IP, and it then asked me for my default gateway. > After the setup was completed, the default gateway didn't seem to be > working properly - I couldn't ping anything outside my LAN. So I did a > route add default gw gateway_ip, and that seemed to work, which means that > it can now access DNS. However, ping and traceroute (other services like > FTP work) don't seem to get returned to my machine. My windows machine on > the same network has no such problems. Also, I wonder if the default > gateway will be maintained once my machine is rebooted. Please help. > > Thanks, > > Steve Add your nameserver to /etc/resolv.conf as su/root, thus: echo nameserver gateway_ip > /etc/resolv.conf That way everything should work. On reboot the route will be lost. To set that permanently run "drakconnect" and set it there. Good luck, HarM -- Registered Linux User #197998 FSF Associate Member #901 ICQ #146191606 Mandrake HowTo's & more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Can't get default gateway to work properly
Just installed Mandrake 9.0. When I went through the install procedure I told it to use a static IP, and it then asked me for my default gateway. After the setup was completed, the default gateway didn't seem to be working properly - I couldn't ping anything outside my LAN. So I did a route add default gw gateway_ip, and that seemed to work, which means that it can now access DNS. However, ping and traceroute (other services like FTP work) don't seem to get returned to my machine. My windows machine on the same network has no such problems. Also, I wonder if the default gateway will be maintained once my machine is rebooted. Please help. Thanks, Steve Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Linuxconf... where is it?
Hello, all! I have Mandrake 9.2. It's up and running, works very well, relatively few problems. However, I have been instructed to use Linuxconf to configure my external modem for dialing out. I type it in as root, but "no package named linuxconf" appears. I then do "urpmi -y linuxconf", but it also declares it an unknown package. I just got through with 139mb of updates from mirror.secsup.org and did my updatedb, but STILL no knowledge about linuxconf. And everything I read on Google says it should already be part of a working package in Linux. Care to enlighten a newbie? I really need to know if linuxconf is necessary for working on a modem, or whatever else I'd ever need it for, and also how to get it if I can't RPM it. Thanks! Eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Konqueror not using installed Flash & Java
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wednesday 10 December 2003 2:46 pm, Trey Sizemore wrote: > I'm running MDK 9.2 with KDE 3.1.4. Mozilla, Firebird, and Galeon use > the installed Java and Flash with no problem. I thought Konqueror was > supposed to use the same plugins if they're installed, but mine > doesn't. Can't seem to get Java and Flash working with Konq. > > Any help is greatly appreciated. > > Thanks. Are the plug-ins found when you click scan for new plu-ins? If it matters here's what I did. K-Menu, Configuration, KDE, WebBrowsing, Plugins. Set /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins to the top of the list. By default that's where all the plug-ins are supposed to be. Click the scan for plug-ins button. They all work here, as long as the site you're looking at is using proper display code. You can test Flash at http://www.realmyst.com/ Quick Time at: http://www.apple.com/trailers/ and a good test of Java (test applets, audio and display) can be accessed from: http://www.rational.com/demos/viewlets/xdetester/XDE_Tester_Viewlet_viewlet_swf.html The Apple Quick Time Movie Trailers don't always work in Konqueror but it may be the coding on the pages. You need the mplayer plug-in for that anyway, available from PLF. Regards; Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User #244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 kernel 2.4.22-21mdk 15:03:30 up 2 days, 4:02, 1 user, load average: 0.41, 0.27, 0.15 HOW YOU CAN TELL THAT IT'S GOING TO BE A ROTTEN DAY: #1040 Your income tax refund cheque bounces. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/15tnZqvqlrLPr5YRAgQYAJ40Sxq9zMbRMdTTxarKkMgACf7J9gCdEsRX pMHj9G1IqIQshG5l18DIezQ= =k32R -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Konqueror not using installed Flash & Java
On Wednesday 10 Dec 2003 9:46 pm, Trey Sizemore wrote: > I'm running MDK 9.2 with KDE 3.1.4. Mozilla, Firebird, and Galeon use > the installed Java and Flash with no problem. I thought Konqueror was > supposed to use the same plugins if they're installed, but mine > doesn't. Can't seem to get Java and Flash working with Konq. > > Any help is greatly appreciated. > > Thanks. In your konqueror setup find the page for plugin configuration. Ensure the path to your mozilla plugins is in the list. Your mozilla plugins will be in /usr/lib/mozilla-1.4/plugins or some similar path depending on your mozilla version. Then press the button to 'scan for new plugins' derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Konqueror not using installed Flash & Java
On Wednesday 10 December 2003 04:46 pm, Trey Sizemore wrote: > I'm running MDK 9.2 with KDE 3.1.4. Mozilla, Firebird, and Galeon use > the installed Java and Flash with no problem. I thought Konqueror was > supposed to use the same plugins if they're installed, but mine > doesn't. Can't seem to get Java and Flash working with Konq. > > Any help is greatly appreciated. You need to have the kdebase-nsplugins installed. You then do ... Settings --> Configure --> Plugins --> Scan for new plugins And for java You need to go to ... Settings --> Configure --> Java & Javascript --> "Path to java executable or 'java' --> Hit OK, and u may have restart Konq Sunny Dubey Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] sylpheed-0.9.7claws-2.3mdk
9.2 rpms for sylpheed-0.9.7claws-2.3mdk are now avaiable from my site. This mdk release features a New plugin. sylpheed-claws-etpan-privacy-plugin-0.9.7claws-2.3mdk.i586.rpm I have been using a compiled version of this plugin most of the day and it is excellent. It can check both PGP/MIME and Inline signatures and displays the results at the top of the opened mail. An example follows: "PGP verify signed message gpg: Signature made Wed 10 Dec 2003 09:09:22 AM EST using DSA key ID 8B9E12AB gpg: Good signature from "Charles A Edwards (security) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" PGP verification success" Though this appears to be a part of the message it is not included as such if you 'reply-to' or 'forward' the message. If you should decide to manually dl the pkgs rather than use urpmi you will need to also dl and install libetban0-0.31 which is also on the site. Charles -- Hollerith, v.: What thou doest when thy phone is on the fritzeth. - Mandrake Linux 10.0 on PurpleDragon Kernel-2.6.0-0.3mdkenterprise http://www.eslrahc.com - pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
[newbie] Konqueror not using installed Flash & Java
I'm running MDK 9.2 with KDE 3.1.4. Mozilla, Firebird, and Galeon use the installed Java and Flash with no problem. I thought Konqueror was supposed to use the same plugins if they're installed, but mine doesn't. Can't seem to get Java and Flash working with Konq. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] PROBLEM WITH IP ADDRESS
On Wednesday 10 Dec 2003 12:22 pm, Nestor Castro wrote: snip > > noop. I can`t ping outside my network, I think the problem is with my > gateway address, but is correctly defined in the Drakconnect. > > I solved the problem concerning the PING in my LAN, by editing > /etc/hosts.allow and All: 192.168.147.0 > > > I suppose the problem is with my gateway because when I use route -n > sends me this information..: > Destination Gateway > Genmask FlagsMetric RefUseIface > 10.5.66.0 0.0.0.0 > 255.255.255.0 u00 0 eth1 > 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0255.0.0.0 > u 0 0 0 lo > 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 > 0.0.0.0 u00 > 0 eth1 > > I checked /etc/sysconfig/network > > and the information is > > Hostname uabc.com(my machine) > networking =yes > gateway=192.168.147.10 (the one defined in Drakcontrol) > gatewaydev=eth1 > > > I`m getting close, I know ..or..I hope. > > Thanks for your help I am confused. How is this all connected? Where is the 10.5.66.0 subnet that appears in your route? What does ifconfig show? And is there an eth0 ? If so is it enabled? derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] PROBLEM WITH IP ADDRESS
Title: RE: [newbie] PROBLEM WITH IP ADDRESS Seems to me you are sharing the internet access with your lan from your computer. If that is the case did you use the share internet connection wizard found in MCC under Internet connection as I recall. If you are sharing the lan with your linux comp then you should show in the configuration of internet access that the gateway is your xxx.xxx.xxx.10 computer and DNS is something like 68.12.13.14 from the ISP . I believe this should show on all of the computers that want to access the internet. Hope this is clear and helps. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Nestor Castro Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 6:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] PROBLEM WITH IP ADDRESS Derek Jennings wrote: >On Wednesday 10 Dec 2003 10:04 am, Nestor Castro wrote: > > >>Derek Jennings wrote: >> >> >>>On Tuesday 09 Dec 2003 8:01 pm, Nestor Castro wrote: >>> >>> I hope someone can help me with this, I'm totally newbie on Linux. I have a LAN that connects to the internet through a Gateway xxx.xxx.xxx.10, also in this LAN is a MS Exchange Server xxx.xxx.xxx.16 which uses this gateway, everyone connected also has access to the internet. I recently installed Mandrake 9.2 on my computer and assigned an address , configured Mozilla and worked just fine, I can send and receive mail, I can PING my gateway normally and also any other IP address in the LAN, but when I try to PING my computer from another one it does not answer, as a result I can`t connect to the Internet. How do I tell LINUX to be seen by others in my LAN, I experimented on security, but could not find something helpful.. I'd appreciate any help.. Nestor >>>If you have the Mandrake firewall enabled (it is called shorewall) then by >>>default your computer will not respond to pings. It can be enabled if you >>>wish, but you do not need it it access the Internet. >>> >>>More likely you have not defined the gateway address or the DNS server >>>addresses you need to access the Internet. >>> From your Mandrake Control Centre>Drakconnect GUI >>> >>>In the centre of the GUI you will see "gateway" it should show the IP of >>>your xxx.xxx.xxx.10 If not then press the 'Configure Internet Access' >>>button and define it. >>>As for the DNS server run the wizard at the bottom of the GUI >>>You will have a chance to define the gateway and DNS server address in >>>there too. >>>If you do not know the DNS address used by your ISP look in your Windows >>>computers config, or the support site of your ISP. >>> >>>HTH >>> >>>derek >>> >>> >>Derek >> >>I Checked both my IP adress of the gateway and the DNS and both are >>correctly defined, (just as they are on my other Windows computers, and >>can also PING them), I also cheked my DrakFirewall and is not enabled. >> >>I remember Installing Mandrake 8.2 and configuring somewhere the IP >>Addresses that could access my computer in particular, but I don`t find >>where I can do that in 9.2. >> >>Thanks for your help >> >>Nestor >> >> > >Can you ping outside your network? >For example >ping 216.109.118.66 (that is yahoo) > >If that works then try >ping www.yahoo.com >if that works then so should a browser. > >The other thing that comes to mind is if you are running a proxy server in >your gateway blocking port 80 > >derek > > > noop. I can`t ping outside my network, I think the problem is with my gateway address, but is correctly defined in the Drakconnect. I solved the problem concerning the PING in my LAN, by editing /etc/hosts.allow and All: 192.168.147.0 I suppose the problem is with my gateway because when I use route -n sends me this information..: Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 10.5.66.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 u 0 0 0 eth1 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 u 0 0 0 lo 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 u 0 0 0 eth1 I checked /etc/sysconfig/network and the information is Hostname uabc.com (my machine) networking =yes gateway=192.168.147.10 (the one defined in Drakcontrol) gatewaydev=eth1 I`m getting close, I know ..or..I hope. Thanks for your help > > > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > >
Re: [newbie] Re: Where's my mail?
I have no idea why your messages aren't showing up, but you can find the messages in your home directory. All the mozilla stuff is in a directory in your home directory called .mozilla, so if you're browsing in Konqueror, set it to view hidden files; if you're doing this from the command line, use the command "ls -a" (without the quotes, of course) rather than plain "ls". Inside that directory, there will be a directory for each of your profiles. change to that and you'll see a directory with an incomprehensible name like ivj8x58h.slt. Inside that is your Mail directory which contains your Inbox and any other mail folders you have created. These are stored as humungous text files, so just open the apropriate one in a text editor like Kwrite and use Find with a word that's likely to be in the mail you're looking for. Tedious, I know, but useful for emergencies like this. BTW, I always set Mozilla Mail to only delete messages on the server when I delete them in Mozilla - that way any mail I don't delete is safely sitting on the server (this feature is also very useful if you're connecting from more than one computer - in fact it's the main reason why I use Mozilla rather than KMail). Sir Robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Either that, or you can copy and paste everything from Linux in the mail folder of your Mozilla profile. Onto a disk/cd-r or a windows based partition and move it over to a windows based computer/OS. Simply Place the files that you copied over in a fresh profile of mozilla following the directions from the previous poster above. The profiles work and act _ALMOST_ exactly the same between the two operating systems. So if you have a dual booting system you can share the same profile if needed. So it should work if the messages are actually there. Regards, Brandon Erik Bertelsen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] VMWare and Samba
On Wednesday 10 December 2003 4:00 pm, N. B. Day wrote: > It looks like you have this setup: > > A dual-boot with Win98 and Linux > A VMware installation of Win98 *inside of Linux* > > You can network between the VMware Guest OS Win98 and Linux if you (1) > accepted the defaults at installation and (2) have samba properly set up > in Linux with a public share. > > Since the dual-boot, i.e. raw, installed on a *real* hard disk > partition version of Win98 isn't running, I don't see how you can > communicate with it with the VMware version. *This OS is not running!* > If you want to share data, move the raw Win98 data into the samba > public share, or make its data area public with samba (bad idea). > > Why are you running crap like Win98 anyway? If you *have* to run > Windows, Win2K or WinXP will be *much* more stable with VMware. > > The default smb.conf that comes with any recent Mandrake needs to be > edited only to define the machine workgroup and netbios names and to > uncomment the stuff about public shares (you obviously have to supply > the fully qualified path to it). It works right out of the box. Edit > smb.conf, stop the daemons with "samba stop", run testparm to see if > you've made any terrible errors, "samba start" and you're good to go. > If you're running Shorewall, open 137-139/tcp and /udp. The easy way > to do this is with the Control Center | Firewall | Advanced. > > As always with samba, it's easier if you have identical usernames and > passwords on both the Win and Linux sides. > > My sound (AC'97 on an Epox board) didn't need any configuration at all > in VMware (other than to get rid of the Microsoft Sound at boot-up). I'm having a problem. I configured the smb.conf properly ... I think, and I can't get it working properly in Win98. I tried running the Direct Cable Access Network Communicator and got R-and-E viewing in Network Neighbourhood. When I click on it it asks for a password, but I didn't set any password up at all. I tried some of my system passwords but no luck. What on earth is going on? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] PROBLEM WITH IP ADDRESS
Derek Jennings wrote: On Wednesday 10 Dec 2003 10:04 am, Nestor Castro wrote: Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 09 Dec 2003 8:01 pm, Nestor Castro wrote: I hope someone can help me with this, I'm totally newbie on Linux. I have a LAN that connects to the internet through a Gateway xxx.xxx.xxx.10, also in this LAN is a MS Exchange Server xxx.xxx.xxx.16 which uses this gateway, everyone connected also has access to the internet. I recently installed Mandrake 9.2 on my computer and assigned an address , configured Mozilla and worked just fine, I can send and receive mail, I can PING my gateway normally and also any other IP address in the LAN, but when I try to PING my computer from another one it does not answer, as a result I can`t connect to the Internet. How do I tell LINUX to be seen by others in my LAN, I experimented on security, but could not find something helpful.. I'd appreciate any help.. Nestor If you have the Mandrake firewall enabled (it is called shorewall) then by default your computer will not respond to pings. It can be enabled if you wish, but you do not need it it access the Internet. More likely you have not defined the gateway address or the DNS server addresses you need to access the Internet. From your Mandrake Control Centre>Drakconnect GUI In the centre of the GUI you will see "gateway" it should show the IP of your xxx.xxx.xxx.10 If not then press the 'Configure Internet Access' button and define it. As for the DNS server run the wizard at the bottom of the GUI You will have a chance to define the gateway and DNS server address in there too. If you do not know the DNS address used by your ISP look in your Windows computers config, or the support site of your ISP. HTH derek Derek I Checked both my IP adress of the gateway and the DNS and both are correctly defined, (just as they are on my other Windows computers, and can also PING them), I also cheked my DrakFirewall and is not enabled. I remember Installing Mandrake 8.2 and configuring somewhere the IP Addresses that could access my computer in particular, but I don`t find where I can do that in 9.2. Thanks for your help Nestor Can you ping outside your network? For example ping 216.109.118.66 (that is yahoo) If that works then try ping www.yahoo.com if that works then so should a browser. The other thing that comes to mind is if you are running a proxy server in your gateway blocking port 80 derek noop. I can`t ping outside my network, I think the problem is with my gateway address, but is correctly defined in the Drakconnect. I solved the problem concerning the PING in my LAN, by editing /etc/hosts.allow and All: 192.168.147.0 I suppose the problem is with my gateway because when I use route -n sends me this information..: Destination Gateway Genmask FlagsMetric RefUseIface 10.5.66.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 u00 0 eth1 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0255.0.0.0 u 0 0 0 lo 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 u00 0 eth1 I checked /etc/sysconfig/network and the information is Hostname uabc.com(my machine) networking =yes gateway=192.168.147.10 (the one defined in Drakcontrol) gatewaydev=eth1 I`m getting close, I know ..or..I hope. Thanks for your help Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] LaTex
qhwang wrote: I have installed the Lyx. It's very easy and quick procedure. I found it's quite useful in my first trail. I am going to enjoy it. Thanks for your help, John and Sir Robin. Have fun, and let me know if you have any questions about Lyx. Sir Robin -- "Certitude is possible for those who only own one encyclopedia." - Robert Anton Wilson Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] LaTex
I have installed the Lyx. It's very easy and quick procedure. I found it's quite useful in my first trail. I am going to enjoy it. Thanks for your help, John and Sir Robin. Bests, QingHua Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MDK9.2: Graphics works.. but what about the rest?
Janus Sandsgaard wrote:
On Wednesday 10 December 2003 00:37, Charlie Mahan wrote:
I still think you should wander into the local dealer's shop with a
boot-able livecd and try it. You'll get more relevant information that way
since you're the one looking at the display.
You'r right. But I do not have the oportunity. But I found a person who have
used the motherboard with succes - so now I just ordered the thing. Hopefully
I will have the new machine in a few days. Looking forward to it... Upgrading
from a Celeron-400 with 128 mb ram, to a P4-2,6Ghz with 512 MB DDR RAM. ;-)
As we say in Turkey, "güle güle kullan" ("laughing, laughing, use it",
or in other words "Enjoy!"). I did a similar long-overdue upgrade a
couple of weeks ago (from a Pentium II to an Athlon XP2500) and it was
like I'd finall entered the information age!
Thgere again, real geeks don't upgrade, they just add more i486s to
their Beowulf cluster ;-)
Sir Robin
--
"Certitude is possible for those who only own one encyclopedia."
- Robert Anton Wilson
Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Univeritesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin
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Re: [newbie] MDK9.2: Graphics works.. but what about the rest?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wednesday 10 December 2003 12:46 pm, Janus Sandsgaard wrote: > On Wednesday 10 December 2003 00:37, Charlie Mahan wrote: > > I still think you should wander into the local dealer's shop with a > > boot-able livecd and try it. You'll get more relevant information that > > way since you're the one looking at the display. > > You'r right. But I do not have the oportunity. But I found a person who > have used the motherboard with succes - so now I just ordered the thing. > Hopefully I will have the new machine in a few days. Looking forward to > it... Upgrading from a Celeron-400 with 128 mb ram, to a P4-2,6Ghz with 512 > MB DDR RAM. ;-) > > Thanks for the respons to my postings. I'll be back if I get trouble with > the new hardware... > > -j Good enough Janus. That's certainly an increase in "horsepower" isn't it? I hope it all works as expected. I still would have gone with an AMD though. In fact I will; if I ever have time to assemble this collection of parts. I'm sure you'll enjoy the new system one way or the other. You did say you enjoy *tweaking*, didn't you? C. - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User #244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 kernel 2.4.22-21mdk 12:46:26 up 2 days, 1:45, 1 user, load average: 0.18, 0.11, 0.09 Two brothers, Mort and Bill, like to sail. While Bill has a great deal of experience, he certainly isn't the rigger Mort is. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/13k7ZqvqlrLPr5YRApgpAJ9Rg6k6dwqmP4zeyqdP0Dd/PITJjACfazDs seKtPnaV99v8IsYNTwiUZ4c= =YPUb -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] VMWare and Samba
On Wednesday 10 December 2003 4:00 pm, N. B. Day wrote: > A dual-boot with Win98 and Linux > A VMware installation of Win98 *inside of Linux* > > You can network between the VMware Guest OS Win98 and Linux if you (1) > accepted the defaults at installation and (2) have samba properly set up > in Linux with a public share. > > Since the dual-boot, i.e. raw, installed on a *real* hard disk > partition version of Win98 isn't running, I don't see how you can > communicate with it with the VMware version. *This OS is not running!* > If you want to share data, move the raw Win98 data into the samba > public share, or make its data area public with samba (bad idea). > > Why are you running crap like Win98 anyway? If you *have* to run > Windows, Win2K or WinXP will be *much* more stable with VMware. > > The default smb.conf that comes with any recent Mandrake needs to be > edited only to define the machine workgroup and netbios names and to > uncomment the stuff about public shares (you obviously have to supply > the fully qualified path to it). It works right out of the box. Edit > smb.conf, stop the daemons with "samba stop", run testparm to see if > you've made any terrible errors, "samba start" and you're good to go. > If you're running Shorewall, open 137-139/tcp and /udp. The easy way > to do this is with the Control Center | Firewall | Advanced. > > As always with samba, it's easier if you have identical usernames and > passwords on both the Win and Linux sides. > > My sound (AC'97 on an Epox board) didn't need any configuration at all > in VMware (other than to get rid of the Microsoft Sound at boot-up). Ok lots of info. I HAVE to run 98 unfortunately. I have an older computer and I can't get anything new until a new computer comes and still I will be stuck with 98 on my Linux computer. Well if I can communicate with Linux that's good enough because all I want is the data on the /mnt/win_c/ which will allow me to "communicate" with my other Win98. I have a funny little problem with my sound card. It can't seem to run Linux sound and VMWare sound at the same time so I have to run Doom Legacy to disable Linux sound for a minute or two and then run VMWare. Very wierd... I wish there was a Samba setting in MDK Control Centre oh well I'll give it a try. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MDK9.2: Graphics works.. but what about the rest?
On Wednesday 10 December 2003 00:37, Charlie Mahan wrote: > I still think you should wander into the local dealer's shop with a > boot-able livecd and try it. You'll get more relevant information that way > since you're the one looking at the display. You'r right. But I do not have the oportunity. But I found a person who have used the motherboard with succes - so now I just ordered the thing. Hopefully I will have the new machine in a few days. Looking forward to it... Upgrading from a Celeron-400 with 128 mb ram, to a P4-2,6Ghz with 512 MB DDR RAM. ;-) Thanks for the respons to my postings. I'll be back if I get trouble with the new hardware... -j -- Spiren er landet! http://spiren.janus.dk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Where's my mail?
Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: There are no junk controls set. I have uninstalled and reinstalled all the mozilla companents from the CD's since this problem occured. I have just managed to use my parents Windows machine to read my email via webmail. After reading it, I decided to download the odd 4x messages I had selected to keep. I started kpp, logged on using my fresh install of Mozilla mail and waited to see the messages appear. Alas all I saw was the number received going up but no messages appearing in te Inbox or the subfolders. So now it brings me to a total of 190 unseen messages that I have been unable to read because a 'stable' release of Mozilla Mail supplied on the installation CD's doesn't work like it should!!! Considering I am expecting at least 5 VERY important messages regarding my pending employment, this shit doesn't go down well! I ask the question again, Where ie which folder etc/ether are my UNREAD messages that I have downloaded over the last 2 days? Can they be recovered so that I can read them or should I just give up on something I have supported for over a year, linux, and move onto a more 'stable' and user friendly system like Windows. Where can I find information on what happened to the downloaded messages? sorry for the rant but i am REALLY pissed off with linux/s right now. I am unemployed and really need the work one of those emails could have been about. I cannot afford to have my machine looked at by an 'expert' linux fundi coz I can't afford it, period. Your help is appreciated and I'll try to get the 9.2 release tomorrow hoping it will fix the mail error. Somehow though I don't think so as not even an uninstall and reinstall of the current version helped. I have no idea why your messages aren't showing up, but you can find the messages in your home directory. All the mozilla stuff is in a directory in your home directory called .mozilla, so if you're browsing in Konqueror, set it to view hidden files; if you're doing this from the command line, use the command "ls -a" (without the quotes, of course) rather than plain "ls". Inside that directory, there will be a directory for each of your profiles. change to that and you'll see a directory with an incomprehensible name like ivj8x58h.slt. Inside that is your Mail directory which contains your Inbox and any other mail folders you have created. These are stored as humungous text files, so just open the apropriate one in a text editor like Kwrite and use Find with a word that's likely to be in the mail you're looking for. Tedious, I know, but useful for emergencies like this. BTW, I always set Mozilla Mail to only delete messages on the server when I delete them in Mozilla - that way any mail I don't delete is safely sitting on the server (this feature is also very useful if you're connecting from more than one computer - in fact it's the main reason why I use Mozilla rather than KMail). Sir Robin -- "Certitude is possible for those who only own one encyclopedia." - Robert Anton Wilson Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] PROBLEM WITH IP ADDRESS
On Wednesday 10 Dec 2003 10:04 am, Nestor Castro wrote: > Derek Jennings wrote: > >On Tuesday 09 Dec 2003 8:01 pm, Nestor Castro wrote: > >>I hope someone can help me with this, I'm totally newbie on Linux. > >> > >>I have a LAN that connects to the internet through a Gateway > >>xxx.xxx.xxx.10, also in this LAN is a MS Exchange Server xxx.xxx.xxx.16 > >>which uses this gateway, everyone connected also has access to the > >>internet. > >> > >>I recently installed Mandrake 9.2 on my computer and assigned an address > >>, configured Mozilla and worked just fine, I can send and receive mail, > >>I can PING my gateway normally and also any other IP address in the LAN, > >>but when I try to PING my computer from another one it does not answer, > >>as a result I can`t connect to the Internet. > >> > >> > >>How do I tell LINUX to be seen by others in my LAN, I experimented on > >>security, but could not find something helpful.. > >> > >>I'd appreciate any help.. > >> > >> > >>Nestor > > > >If you have the Mandrake firewall enabled (it is called shorewall) then by > >default your computer will not respond to pings. It can be enabled if you > >wish, but you do not need it it access the Internet. > > > >More likely you have not defined the gateway address or the DNS server > >addresses you need to access the Internet. > > > >>From your Mandrake Control Centre>Drakconnect GUI > > > >In the centre of the GUI you will see "gateway" it should show the IP of > > your xxx.xxx.xxx.10 If not then press the 'Configure Internet Access' > > button and define it. > >As for the DNS server run the wizard at the bottom of the GUI > >You will have a chance to define the gateway and DNS server address in > > there too. > >If you do not know the DNS address used by your ISP look in your Windows > >computers config, or the support site of your ISP. > > > >HTH > > > >derek > > Derek > > I Checked both my IP adress of the gateway and the DNS and both are > correctly defined, (just as they are on my other Windows computers, and > can also PING them), I also cheked my DrakFirewall and is not enabled. > > I remember Installing Mandrake 8.2 and configuring somewhere the IP > Addresses that could access my computer in particular, but I don`t find > where I can do that in 9.2. > > Thanks for your help > > Nestor Can you ping outside your network? For example ping 216.109.118.66 (that is yahoo) If that works then try ping www.yahoo.com if that works then so should a browser. The other thing that comes to mind is if you are running a proxy server in your gateway blocking port 80 derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Realplayer Stillborn Under 9.2
On Wednesday 10 December 2003 01:37 pm, Graham Watkins wrote: > Hi folks, > > The installation fiasco continues ... > > Last night I thought I would put RealPlayer 8 on my recently installed > 9.2. However, having done so, when I started it up, I got mostly black > space where the program should be and I had to kill it to get rid of it. > > There are no error messages when I start it from the command line > (whether as graham or as root), so I don't know what's causing it. > Tried downloading a new .rpm from Real but the result was the same. > > I know it's not a unique problem because I found some discussion of it > in another forum but no-one had come up with an answer. Have any of you > guys come across this problem and if so how did you fix it. > > Life without BBC playback is inconceivable. I could be going back to > 9.0 if this can't be fixed. Is it me, or is MDK 9.2 more buggy than > previous versions? Well, I get the same error when I run realplay as well, but I am on 9.1. I have found that killing the artsd process under the KDE desktop allows realplay to work fine and then you just need to restart artsd after you are done with realplay. I suspect that this is because realplay needs to send sound directly to the sound device which is already in use by artsd. One potential solution is to create a sybolic link to /dev/dsp called something else and tell Realplay to use that for sound. I haven't had time to try it yet to see if that works. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] firebird emulation
OK, That's embarassing. I spent way too long looking for that not to find it :-( Cheers Anton Todd Slater wrote: On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 09:55:23PM +1300, anton wrote: Well, not quite, The default for MOZ firebird seems to be that when you open a new tab the focus is NOT put on that tab, though there is an option to change that. Does anyone know if this is possible in Mozilla? Edit > Preferences > Tabbed Browsing, Uncheck "Load links in the background"? Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: Where's my mail?
There are no junk controls set. I have uninstalled and reinstalled all the mozilla companents from the CD's since this problem occured. I have just managed to use my parents Windows machine to read my email via webmail. After reading it, I decided to download the odd 4x messages I had selected to keep. I started kpp, logged on using my fresh install of Mozilla mail and waited to see the messages appear. Alas all I saw was the number received going up but no messages appearing in te Inbox or the subfolders. So now it brings me to a total of 190 unseen messages that I have been unable to read because a 'stable' release of Mozilla Mail supplied on the installation CD's doesn't work like it should!!! Considering I am expecting at least 5 VERY important messages regarding my pending employment, this shit doesn't go down well! I ask the question again, Where ie which folder etc/ether are my UNREAD messages that I have downloaded over the last 2 days? Can they be recovered so that I can read them or should I just give up on something I have supported for over a year, linux, and move onto a more 'stable' and user friendly system like Windows. Where can I find information on what happened to the downloaded messages? sorry for the rant but i am REALLY pissed off with linux/s right now. I am unemployed and really need the work one of those emails could have been about. I cannot afford to have my machine looked at by an 'expert' linux fundi coz I can't afford it, period. Your help is appreciated and I'll try to get the 9.2 release tomorrow hoping it will fix the mail error. Somehow though I don't think so as not even an uninstall and reinstall of the current version helped. -- Hylton Conacher - Licenced ex-Windows user Registered Linux user # 229959 at http://counter.li.org Using Linux Mandrake 9.1 with KDE 3.1 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Scan to PDF?
On Wednesday 10 Dec 2003 5:31 pm, Tango Echo wrote: > --- Derek Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wednesday 10 Dec 2003 3:05 pm, Tango Echo wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > Is there an app that can easily scan docs to a PDF > > > file? > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > Tango Echo > > > > Of course > > > > > > Alternatively > > kooka - Install kdegraphics-kooka RPM. If you select > > 'Print' in kooka you get > > the same printer selection dialogue as described > > above. > > Heh, oh yeah, there it is... Thanks =) > But now I face a new problem. The quality of the PDF > file printed is not very good at all. Some of the > smaller type is not even readable. Are there settings > to change this as well? > Well I can tell you *how* to change the way the PDF printer is setup. What settings to use to make your image clearer I cannot say. Open KDE Control>Centre>Peripherals>Printers Right Click on the PDF printer and select 'Configure' In the pop up that appears click on the spanner icon to the right of the drop down box. In the next pop up window click on 'Edit Command' In the top box is the command used to create that document. Edit that line with whatever options you think will help. The area underneath the command lists the options and their formats. Since this is an image document you are printing, I assume it is the graphics options which are going to help you. You might also find that increasing the scan resolution will help. derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Realplayer Stillborn Under 9.2
Hi folks, The installation fiasco continues ... Last night I thought I would put RealPlayer 8 on my recently installed 9.2. However, having done so, when I started it up, I got mostly black space where the program should be and I had to kill it to get rid of it. There are no error messages when I start it from the command line (whether as graham or as root), so I don't know what's causing it. Tried downloading a new .rpm from Real but the result was the same. I know it's not a unique problem because I found some discussion of it in another forum but no-one had come up with an answer. Have any of you guys come across this problem and if so how did you fix it. Life without BBC playback is inconceivable. I could be going back to 9.0 if this can't be fixed. Is it me, or is MDK 9.2 more buggy than previous versions? Cheers, -- Graham Watkins On the whole, I preferred cats to women because cats seldom if ever used the word "relationship".(Kinky Friedman - Greenwich Killing Time) Registered Linux user number 265254 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] PROBLEM WITH IP ADDRESS
Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 09 Dec 2003 8:01 pm, Nestor Castro wrote: I hope someone can help me with this, I'm totally newbie on Linux. I have a LAN that connects to the internet through a Gateway xxx.xxx.xxx.10, also in this LAN is a MS Exchange Server xxx.xxx.xxx.16 which uses this gateway, everyone connected also has access to the internet. I recently installed Mandrake 9.2 on my computer and assigned an address , configured Mozilla and worked just fine, I can send and receive mail, I can PING my gateway normally and also any other IP address in the LAN, but when I try to PING my computer from another one it does not answer, as a result I can`t connect to the Internet. How do I tell LINUX to be seen by others in my LAN, I experimented on security, but could not find something helpful.. I'd appreciate any help.. Nestor If you have the Mandrake firewall enabled (it is called shorewall) then by default your computer will not respond to pings. It can be enabled if you wish, but you do not need it it access the Internet. More likely you have not defined the gateway address or the DNS server addresses you need to access the Internet. From your Mandrake Control Centre>Drakconnect GUI In the centre of the GUI you will see "gateway" it should show the IP of your xxx.xxx.xxx.10 If not then press the 'Configure Internet Access' button and define it. As for the DNS server run the wizard at the bottom of the GUI You will have a chance to define the gateway and DNS server address in there too. If you do not know the DNS address used by your ISP look in your Windows computers config, or the support site of your ISP. HTH derek Derek I Checked both my IP adress of the gateway and the DNS and both are correctly defined, (just as they are on my other Windows computers, and can also PING them), I also cheked my DrakFirewall and is not enabled. I remember Installing Mandrake 8.2 and configuring somewhere the IP Addresses that could access my computer in particular, but I don`t find where I can do that in 9.2. Thanks for your help Nestor Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Scan to PDF?
--- Derek Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 10 Dec 2003 3:05 pm, Tango Echo wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Is there an app that can easily scan docs to a PDF > > file? > > > > Thanks > > > > Tango Echo > > Of course > > Alternatively > kooka - Install kdegraphics-kooka RPM. If you select > 'Print' in kooka you get > the same printer selection dialogue as described > above. Heh, oh yeah, there it is... Thanks =) But now I face a new problem. The quality of the PDF file printed is not very good at all. Some of the smaller type is not even readable. Are there settings to change this as well? __ Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. http://photos.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] LaTex
John Richard Smith wrote: qhwang wrote: Hi There, Where can I download the Mandrake packages for LaTex? I am planning to use it with all my paper work afterwards. If anyone can tell me where to find a tutorial about install LaTex it should be very great. By the way, Can anyone compare it with word processor such as KWORD? Many thanks. Bests, QingHua The Mandrake version is called Klyx, it's probably on your CD's It's fine if you know Latex pronounced La tech, though klyx gives you some templates, if they don't suit you, then you have to know latex to create your own. Klyx is a publishing tool, kword is a superior word processor with many of the features of klyx, but you don't need to know latex to create your own templates. Klyx is no longer a part of Mandrake, since development on Klyx stopped some time ago. Klyx was a version of LyX for KDE, but it was rendered unnecessary when the main LyX version moved from the xforms widget set to Qt - recent versions of LyX have a KDE-like look and feel. The template issue is a little confusing. LaTeX has styles and document classes (it comes with about a dozen of the common ones, like article, book, report etc., and there a loads more you can download). LyX has it's own layout files, which access these and can include extra commands to tweak the original styles if you want (if you go to my home page at www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin you can see an example layout file that I produced). As John said, you really need to know some LaTeX to do anything here. Templates are produced in the normal way be saving an existing document as a template, so to create a template, there must already be a LaTeX style or class and a LyX layout in existence. A GUI-based layout file editor would be great, but the LyX development team are overworked as it is, so I can't see it happening in the near future. On the positive side, the layout files that come with LyX cover just about all the document classes that come with a standard LaTeX distribution and a few more, so as I said, if you want to produce something fairly normal-looking and aren't worried about the fine details of typesetting, then you don't need to worry about fiddling with LaTeX, and once you get used to it, LyX is much easier to use than a normal word processor - you can forget about most of the formatting stuff and concentrate on writing. I use LyX for nearly all my own writing, and OpenOffice when I need to deal with Word documents. Sir Robin -- "Certitude is possible for those who only own one encyclopedia." - Robert Anton Wilson Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] LaTex
Many thanks for your big response, Sir Robin. I will follow it carefully. Bests, QingHua Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] LaTex
Many thanks, John. I will go to check the CDs. The reason I wanna use LaTex is most scientific publishings have LaTex template. Once I created a pdf file edited using Kword. It looks very ugly because of the lack of fonts libraries(I guess). This is another reason I gonna try LaTex. Thanks again. Bests, QingHua Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] LaTex
qhwang wrote:
Hi There,
Where can I download the Mandrake packages for LaTex? I am planning to use
it with all my paper work afterwards. If anyone can tell me where to find a
tutorial about install LaTex it should be very great. By the way, Can anyone
compare it with word processor such as KWORD? Many thanks.
The LaTeX packages are part of the standard download edition. The
packages you want are tetex-latex and tetex-dvips.
There is no comparison between LaTeX and a wordprocessor! LaTeX is a
markup language, like HTML (it's essentially a set of macros for the TeX
typesetting system). For example, to put some text in italics, you'd
type \emph{this text is in italics}.
If this doesn't appeal, there is a nice graphic front-end to LateX
called LyX, which is also available in the standard Mandrake
distribution. Although it looks like a word processor at first sight,
some things in the LaTeX world are very different, so work through the
tutorial in the Help pages before you do anything else.
Whether LyX is right for you depends a lot on what kind of documents you
want to produce. LyX is great for academic, scientific and some kinds
of technical writing - basically anything which has a "normal" format.
If you want to do something like a magazine, where you need to do a lot
of complicated stuff with frames and use a variety of fonts, you might
be better off with KWord or Scribus, which is a TeX-based DTP
application. For example, I used LyX to write a coursebook recently,
but designed the cover page with Scribus (I could have done it in LyX,
but it would have required inputting a lot of raw LaTeX code, and I
couldn't be bothered).
See http://www.ling.upenn.edu/advice/latex.html for general information
on LaTeX, and http://www.lyx.org for info on LyX. A good page for using
LyX for DTP is http://katspace.net/lyx/lyxhow.php
Sir Robin
--
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- Robert Anton Wilson
Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Univeritesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin
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Re: [newbie] Moving from windows to linux in the enterprise
Ok, from the begining is not an easy work to move from a windows based company to a linux one, and you must be more than a newbie to get that job. I have like 5 years of experience working on linux, making diferent tests, implementing database servers, web servers, proxys, file servers, autentication servers and moving users form windows to Linux. But none of them was an easy thing because you are not in a home proyect to see if it works... you are into an enterprice and youre boss hopes you now wath you are doing and hope no more than success from you. Nevertheless i offer you mi help to guide you to a scaled migration from one to other system. My recommend is going first with > C) Linux servers with windows desktops. and if you solve all the users request from the servers... then most of the job have to been done. there are Oracle solutions for Linux servers so you have to investigate a lot by youre selve before going to youre boos's office to show youre solution Cdrack. --- Jamie Kerwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With the success of My Mandrake 9.0 Intranet server, > My boss recently > expressed an interest in moving our entire company's > IT from Windows servers > & desktops to either: > > A) a Totally linux based solution. > B) windows servers with Linux Clients > C) Linux servers with windows desktops. > > My question, well request really, is for any > information, or suggestions of > web-sites that may be of use when doing a business > proposal for this. > Plus any recommended software replacements plus > recommendations of with > linux distros to use would be very much appreciated > (obviously I would like > to use Mandrake as I have used this in the past.) > > The systems we currently use are: > > Win2k Servers using Active Directory (for > authentication and also user > information directory) > DNS (Bind?) > DHCP, > Oracle 8i server (hosted on a cluster server) > Cognos(reports from our oracle database) > Exchange (email, calendar, meeting room booking, > tasks etc..) > MS Office 2k (obvious replacement being Open Office) > Terminal Server, > Remote Dial-in Users, > Scan-file (scanned document management) > > Additionally we want to use: > Electronic faxing, > Web Proxying, (squid?) > > Thanks in advance. > > Jamie > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ITS > Internal Extension : 5806 > Direct Dial: 0870 754 5806 > > > ** E-mail Disclaimer ** > > This e-mail message is confidential and for use by > the addressee only. If the message is received by > anyone other than the addressee, please return the > message to the sender by replying to it and then > delete the message from your computer. Please note > that any views, or opinions presented in this e-mail > are solely those of the author and do not > necessarily represent those of The Benenden > Healthcare Society Limited. The recipient should > check this e-mail and any attachments for the > presence of viruses. The Benenden Healthcare > Society Limited accepts no liability for any damages > caused by any virus transmitted by this email and > its attachments. The Benenden Healthcare Society > Limited is regulated by the Financial Services > Authority (FSA) and is an Incorporated Friendly > Society, registered under the Friendly Societies Act > 1992. Registered No: 480F. > > The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited, Registered > Office: Holgate Park Drive, York, YO26 4GG. Tel 0870 > 7545 700 Fax 0870 7545 821 www.benenden.org.uk. > > *** > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > __ Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. http://photos.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] LaTex
qhwang wrote: Hi There, Where can I download the Mandrake packages for LaTex? I am planning to use it with all my paper work afterwards. If anyone can tell me where to find a tutorial about install LaTex it should be very great. By the way, Can anyone compare it with word processor such as KWORD? Many thanks. Bests, QingHua The Mandrake version is called Klyx, it's probably on your CD's It's fine if you know Latex pronounced La tech, though klyx gives you some templates, if they don't suit you, then you have to know latex to create your own. Klyx is a publishing tool, kword is a superior word processor with many of the features of klyx, but you don't need to know latex to create your own templates. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: Moving from windows to linux in the enterprise
Hi Jamie I setup a complete IT system for our small company (16-20 people) using mandrake Linux 9.1 (and some other stuff) I'll see if I can write more about this, but I have to go now The summary is, things are working quite well, but there's a lot of things that are hard or impossible or unavailable at this moment. It does require a lot of ajusting when coming from windows L8r Simon Jamie Kerwick wrote: With the success of My Mandrake 9.0 Intranet server, My boss recently expressed an interest in moving our entire company's IT from Windows servers & desktops to either: A) a Totally linux based solution. B) windows servers with Linux Clients C) Linux servers with windows desktops. My question, well request really, is for any information, or suggestions of web-sites that may be of use when doing a business proposal for this. Plus any recommended software replacements plus recommendations of with linux distros to use would be very much appreciated (obviously I would like to use Mandrake as I have used this in the past.) The systems we currently use are: Win2k Servers using Active Directory (for authentication and also user information directory) DNS (Bind?) DHCP, Oracle 8i server (hosted on a cluster server) Cognos(reports from our oracle database) Exchange (email, calendar, meeting room booking, tasks etc..) MS Office 2k (obvious replacement being Open Office) Terminal Server, Remote Dial-in Users, Scan-file (scanned document management) Additionally we want to use: Electronic faxing, Web Proxying, (squid?) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Buying notebook: tough decision. Help.
Dear all, Remember my decision to buy a notebook? I've been doing some comparisons and come into this difficult point, I hope you can help me out on this. I have 3 choices: 1. Compaq presario 2516AP (USD 1,400) - Intel Pentium 4 processor 2.66Ghz - 256MB DDR SDRAM - 40GB HDD - 15" TFT XGA display - Built in FDD - DVD + CDRW Combo - 64 MB VRAM Shared DDR Memory - Integrated Modem/LAN - Bag 2. Compaq presario X1033AP (USD1,700) - Intel Centrino mobile technology Intel Pentium M processor 1.4Ghz Intel 855PM Chipset Intel PRO Wireless LAN 2100 - 256MB DDR RAM - 40GB HDD - DVD drive - 802.11b wireless LAN - 15.4 WXGA - Integrated Modem and LAN - 64MB ATI Mobility Radeon 9200 graphics 3. IBM Thinkpad R40e model 2684AA5 (USD 1,375) - Mobile Intel Pentium 4 Processor 2.2Ghz - 14.1 TFT Display - 256 MB DDR SDRAM - 30GB HDD - DVD & CDRW Combo - Modem and LAN - USD FDD 1.44" Also, what is the benefit of using Mobile processor than ordinary Pentium 4? Thanks a lot, Fajar. ---Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com).Version: 6.0.547 / Virus Database: 340 - Release Date: 12/2/2003
[newbie] Moving from windows to linux in the enterprise
With the success of My Mandrake 9.0 Intranet server, My boss recently expressed an interest in moving our entire company's IT from Windows servers & desktops to either: A) a Totally linux based solution. B) windows servers with Linux Clients C) Linux servers with windows desktops. My question, well request really, is for any information, or suggestions of web-sites that may be of use when doing a business proposal for this. Plus any recommended software replacements plus recommendations of with linux distros to use would be very much appreciated (obviously I would like to use Mandrake as I have used this in the past.) The systems we currently use are: Win2k Servers using Active Directory (for authentication and also user information directory) DNS (Bind?) DHCP, Oracle 8i server (hosted on a cluster server) Cognos(reports from our oracle database) Exchange (email, calendar, meeting room booking, tasks etc..) MS Office 2k (obvious replacement being Open Office) Terminal Server, Remote Dial-in Users, Scan-file (scanned document management) Additionally we want to use: Electronic faxing, Web Proxying, (squid?) Thanks in advance. Jamie [EMAIL PROTECTED] ITS Internal Extension : 5806 Direct Dial: 0870 754 5806 ** E-mail Disclaimer ** This e-mail message is confidential and for use by the addressee only. If the message is received by anyone other than the addressee, please return the message to the sender by replying to it and then delete the message from your computer. Please note that any views, or opinions presented in this e-mail are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited. The recipient should check this e-mail and any attachments for the presence of viruses. The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited accepts no liability for any damages caused by any virus transmitted by this email and its attachments. The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited is regulated by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) and is an Incorporated Friendly Society, registered under the Friendly Societies Act 1992. Registered No: 480F. The Benenden Healthcare Society Limited, Registered Office: Holgate Park Drive, York, YO26 4GG. Tel 0870 7545 700 Fax 0870 7545 821 www.benenden.org.uk. *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MandrakeMove
On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 21:13, Lee Wiggers wrote: > On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 20:58:06 -0600 > Dennis Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tuesday 09 December 2003 08:50 pm, Lee Wiggers wrote: > > > Okay, I've been lurking for a week on this. > > > > > > At the usual risk of sounding stupid, what is this disk good > > > for? > > > > > Lee, it is useful as a portable install to demonstrate to windows > > users that linux is not all that tough to comprehend. Also I think > > the main idea may be to use it on a laptop or somewhere not your > > normal station and use the usb drive to save your data, info, > > photos, whatever and cary them off with you without leaving a > > trace on the computer used. No trade secrets lost type worries to > > worry about. Just my idea of why one would use it. -- > > > "Pardon me, sir. May I use your computer to compose this secret > document and save it to my portable drive. Of course, I alway carry > my drive, but seem to have forgotten my computer." > > True, that happens to me all the time. I've been using Knoppix for 6 months now as a rescue tool, and tested MM for the same purpose yesterday when I saved "The ONLY copy of my thesis!!! SOB!!" for a young woman who appears to know quite a lot about quantum electrodynamics but nothing at all about backups. You boot the machine, mount the remaining readable hard drive partitions (usually automatic), connect to the network (all in the GUI) and save the data to your Samba server where it should have been backed up in the first place. You restrain yourself from announcing that you usually get paid with sexual favors for work like this by remembering that you are married to a formidable woman, the code of conduct forbids messing with students, and with the thought that a person so lacking in common sense would probably babble through the whole thing anyway. MM looks very slick. It's obviously based on the "Discovery," one CD version of 9.2, which is why you only get KDE. The down-loadable edition recognizes a USB key but has no way to save the configuration to either one of those or to a hard disk. That's what you get with the box: they recompile with one new pragma and you buy a fairly expensive USB key from them. It may even be worth it. I travel a lot and frequently have to use "strange" Windows machines to check on my email and to monitor experiments. Having an OS on a CD and USB key that I could stick into any modern PC without doing a thing to the underlying OS or leaving a trace behind and *not having to to any reconfiguring* would be a good thing. I *hate* laptops. -- N. B. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department, University of New Orleans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] LaTex
Hi There, Where can I download the Mandrake packages for LaTex? I am planning to use it with all my paper work afterwards. If anyone can tell me where to find a tutorial about install LaTex it should be very great. By the way, Can anyone compare it with word processor such as KWORD? Many thanks. Bests, QingHua Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] VMWare and Samba
On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 16:19, Scott Naylor wrote: > I know I can use Samba to have my VMWin98 communicate with my installed Win98. > The problem is I have no idea how to set up Samba so this works! Can someone > please give me some help? > > PS. Sound is all buggy in VMWare. Anyway to fix this? It looks like you have this setup: A dual-boot with Win98 and Linux A VMware installation of Win98 *inside of Linux* You can network between the VMware Guest OS Win98 and Linux if you (1) accepted the defaults at installation and (2) have samba properly set up in Linux with a public share. Since the dual-boot, i.e. raw, installed on a *real* hard disk partition version of Win98 isn't running, I don't see how you can communicate with it with the VMware version. *This OS is not running!* If you want to share data, move the raw Win98 data into the samba public share, or make its data area public with samba (bad idea). Why are you running crap like Win98 anyway? If you *have* to run Windows, Win2K or WinXP will be *much* more stable with VMware. The default smb.conf that comes with any recent Mandrake needs to be edited only to define the machine workgroup and netbios names and to uncomment the stuff about public shares (you obviously have to supply the fully qualified path to it). It works right out of the box. Edit smb.conf, stop the daemons with "samba stop", run testparm to see if you've made any terrible errors, "samba start" and you're good to go. If you're running Shorewall, open 137-139/tcp and /udp. The easy way to do this is with the Control Center | Firewall | Advanced. As always with samba, it's easier if you have identical usernames and passwords on both the Win and Linux sides. My sound (AC'97 on an Epox board) didn't need any configuration at all in VMware (other than to get rid of the Microsoft Sound at boot-up). -- N. B. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department, University of New Orleans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] HPT372 Raid and Mandrake 9.2
I am trying to setup RAID 0/1 using Mandrake 9.2 and a HPT 372. I have the 4 drives working correctly and the raid config has been successfully setup within the HPT management SW. However, Mandrake keeps breaking the RAID config on the HPT. Any suggestions? Thanks Doug Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Scan to PDF?
Tango Echo wrote: Hi all, Is there an app that can easily scan docs to a PDF file? Are you talking about images or text? If you just want to scan a page as an image, any of the SANE-based programs are fine - a good option is to set up the GIMP with SANE as a source, then save in Postscript format, which you can then convert to PDF with ps2pdf If you want to actually read the characters of a text and prodcue a PDF file as your end result, you probably don't want to go directly to PDF in any case, as there are bound to be some scanning errors you'll need to correct, or formatting you want to change. GOCR is the only tool I know of for scanning text. For converting text files to PDF, you can use a2ps then ps2pdf, but if you want any formatting you're better off opening the file in OpenOffice or LyX, both of which can export PDF files. LyX gives nicer results, as it uses LaTeX as a backend, but if you want your PDF files to be viewable by Windows users, you need to change the default font to pslatex or ae. Sir Robin -- "Certitude is possible for those who only own one encyclopedia." - Robert Anton Wilson Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Scan to PDF?
On Wednesday 10 Dec 2003 3:05 pm, Tango Echo wrote: > Hi all, > > Is there an app that can easily scan docs to a PDF > file? > > Thanks > > Tango Echo Of course xsane - Install xsane RPM in the setup select the copy tab and set the printer command to be qtcups --stdin Now when you use xsane to print a scan you will get a printer dialogue to select a printer. One of the available printers is print to PDF. Alternatively kooka - Install kdegraphics-kooka RPM. If you select 'Print' in kooka you get the same printer selection dialogue as described above. Alternatively gimp - Install gimp and xsane-gimp RPMs - The Gimp is a full featured image editor it can import images from the scanner (using xsane) which can then be manipulated. To print an image rightclick on image select print, and define a new printer with the command 'qtcups --stdin' as before. HTH derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] PROBLEM WITH IP ADDRESS
On Tuesday 09 Dec 2003 8:01 pm, Nestor Castro wrote: > I hope someone can help me with this, I'm totally newbie on Linux. > > I have a LAN that connects to the internet through a Gateway > xxx.xxx.xxx.10, also in this LAN is a MS Exchange Server xxx.xxx.xxx.16 > which uses this gateway, everyone connected also has access to the > internet. > > I recently installed Mandrake 9.2 on my computer and assigned an address > , configured Mozilla and worked just fine, I can send and receive mail, > I can PING my gateway normally and also any other IP address in the LAN, > but when I try to PING my computer from another one it does not answer, > as a result I can`t connect to the Internet. > > > How do I tell LINUX to be seen by others in my LAN, I experimented on > security, but could not find something helpful.. > > I'd appreciate any help.. > > > Nestor If you have the Mandrake firewall enabled (it is called shorewall) then by default your computer will not respond to pings. It can be enabled if you wish, but you do not need it it access the Internet. More likely you have not defined the gateway address or the DNS server addresses you need to access the Internet. From your Mandrake Control Centre>Drakconnect GUI In the centre of the GUI you will see "gateway" it should show the IP of your xxx.xxx.xxx.10 If not then press the 'Configure Internet Access' button and define it. As for the DNS server run the wizard at the bottom of the GUI You will have a chance to define the gateway and DNS server address in there too. If you do not know the DNS address used by your ISP look in your Windows computers config, or the support site of your ISP. HTH derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Scan to PDF?
Hi all, Is there an app that can easily scan docs to a PDF file? Thanks Tango Echo __ Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. http://photos.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MandrakeMove
i didn't found the iso image... have some of you...??? Cdrack. --- JoeHill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 21:50:03 -0500 > Lee Wiggers > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Enlighten me. > > Didn't you see the pr0n? > > -- > JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 > Registered Linux user #282046 > Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org > +++ > "Well, he might as well have been bombing Denmark." > -- Gore Vidal, on the bombing of Afghanistan after > 9/11 > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > __ Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. http://photos.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Modem troubles
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 18:47:36 +1300 Carren Stuart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks for that! I finally got my modem working and have just > purchased the license key and upgraded to full driver version. > For some reason though it will not accept my license key ... when I > do the usr/sbin/hsfconfig --license command it tells me "file not > found" (or words to that affect) > Are you in 'root' mode or 'SuperUser' mode when you do the /usr/sbin/hsfconfig command? You must be for it to work. In your normal User account, you don't have permission to run the file, so the file is reported as not found. In a terminal window at the command prompt, type "su" and then enter the password for the SuperUser or Root account. Then run hsfconfig. At this point I also run WvDial and let it run in the foreground. I then switch to another desktop workspace to use the web browser and the email client. I do it this way because I have a lot of telephone line noise in my area and the web browser and email client will sometimes get out of sync with my ISP. So I go back to the WvDial terminal session, issue CTRL-C to stop WvDial, and then restart WvDial. Then I can return to the desktop with the web browser and email client and continue from where they stopped. (This is why I stopped using kppp as the modem dialer program. There wasn't as clean a way to get kppp to exit when the web browser and email client got out of sync with the ISP. I say out of sync, because the modem was still connected to the ISP the entire time the problem occured.) > > I don't suppose you can help me with my sound problem? So far I've > had one reply to that post which hasn't helped unfortunately ;-) I missed the question. I use a SBLive! Value card with the ALSA drivers. Make sure you have opened all of your mixers and volume controls available under your desktop environment and increase the volume levels. Most of the mixers and volume controls have turned down the playback sound to 0 volume. Many times, just raising those volume controls will give you sound. Best, The Other. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound question this time
> What *relevant stuff* might that be? :-) > You should have something similar to this (This is for my card) - alias char-major-116 snd alias snd-card-0 snd-cs46xx alias char-major-14 soundcore alias sound-slot-0 cs46xx alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss options snd major=116 cards_limit=1 device_mode=0666 options snd-cs46xx index=0 > I have NO idea what I am doing here remember! I need to know what I am > looking for and how to configure it correctly. Can you be a little > more specific? Well you would need to go to www.alsa-project.org and get the exact details for your card. HOWEVER I went there and tried to find your card and it was not listed (not anywhere I could see anyways!). I think you may have to check and make sure this card is supported by ALSA as if not it will not work. If its not supported you could just disable it in the BIOS (or jumpers on the motherboard) and then go get something that is compatible. I understand Creative soundblasters are fairly good and easy to setup and use. -- John Willby Registered Linux user number 321644 ICQ: 92791912 Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] YIM: vicarofwibley Linux is like a wigwam - No Gates, no Windows, Apache inside. 13:33:24 up 13 days, 5:56, 1 user, load average: 0.09, 0.06, 0.01 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] firebird emulation
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 09:55:23PM +1300, anton wrote: > Well, not quite, > The default for MOZ firebird seems to be that when you open a new tab > the focus is NOT put on that tab, though there is an option to change > that. Does anyone know if this is possible in Mozilla? Edit > Preferences > Tabbed Browsing, Uncheck "Load links in the background"? Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] URGENT: Locked out of important directory [SOLVED]
On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 23:27, Marco Verheul wrote: > Well, sort of... > > I still can't figure out why I was locked out of these directories, but > I managed to copy them into a new directory as root and give myself the > proper permissions again. The immediate problem is solved, but I would > still be interested in any ideas as to why I had the problem in the > first place. > > Marco > > On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 09:25, Marco Verheul wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I had a weird accident with gFTP last night. When I was changing the > > permissions on a couple of files before uploading them to my website, I > > must have pushed a wrong button, because gFTP crashed. > > When I started it up again I found myself locked out of the directory > > where my websites are located. Still I get a permission denied. > > Also in Konqueror it is indicated that the directory is locked. When I > > open a console and navigate to the directory as root, nothing seems to > > be the matter. The permissions look good and the directory is still > > owned by me. > > > > Any suggestions are most welcome, because I really to access those > > files for upload. I was once stumped with a similar problem and it turned out that I had (without realising) removed the execute bit on sub-directories - that is, rw-rw-rw which of course means that you can't enter those sub-directories. So it might pay to check again. Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] login display managers
I'm having some odd problems with kdm and xdm on 9.2. If I configure the system to boot to kdm, it launches fine. After entering a username and password, the dialog box disappears, showing the default background, then the screen blanks for a few seconds and then X restarts and I'm back to the kdm login screen. With xdm, I can login and launch a window manager just fine, but when I logout from the WM, I am returned to a blue screen with a partially drawn login dialog box and a frozen system. None of the virtual terminals are available and I can't ctrl-alt-backspace to kill X. The only way out is a hard reboot. I've tried reinstalling kdm but nothing changes. Any thoughts? Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] k3b grief
Runor is that it's a mandrake problem in the dvd customization in cdrecord. P On Wednesday 10 December 2003 01:43 am, Paul Harrison wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Paul Kaplan wrote: > | Try rpmseek.org and pick the most recent (highest version #) cdrecord > > rpm for > > | mdk 9.1. I didn't have any dependency problems with the cdrecord > > downgrade > > | and I doubt there will be a problem with cdrdao. > > This was great advice Paul. For the record, got > cdrecord-2.0-2mdk.i586.rpm from the Mdk 9.1 branch of rpmseek.org, > simply double-clicked it, it removed the more recent version of cdrecord > - - no dependency problems at all. > > I can write CDs again! > > Are the developers of cdrecord looking at this buffer underrun problem? > > Paul > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with MultiZilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQE/1sCXq+i2H9Bw1yoRAuKOAKCXojY9h4tmTp26Famk7KgizC5zWgCgjUs9 > CJNwLrpE7eSwkRf0r2qvF98= > =EQYw > -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] How can I replace my deleted kernel
Eric Huff wrote: Only thing is I like the boot script full width of the screen and that gui squashes it up too much for my taste.Is that what lba32 does to it , as in, boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b vga=791 default=91-2.4.21.0 keytable=/boot/uk.klt lba32 prompt nowarn timeout=200 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw ignore-table I get the full width, plain bootup. Here is my lilo. I think it is the vga line, but not sure. boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map vga=normal default="linux" keytable=/boot/us.klt prompt nowarn timeout=100 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw eric I don't think so , the vga= line is to set you normal graphics level during bootup, that is why in failsafe I set it to vga=ask then I get to choose what graphics level to boot in, if graphics level be an issue to get to login. No I think something else controls the gui bootscript screen, I prefer the full screenwidth boot scripts , so that you get more time and better visual appreciation of the script, I don't mind eye candy as such , I am not anti-gui , but the authors do so schrink the viewing area so much that it defeats the purpose. I find vga=791 gives you smal enough script that I can still read and yet means the script is before your eyes long enough to have a chance to appreciate what it is saying. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Some Windows Humour
Apparently this is *really* old, but I've never seen it, therefore found it quite funny: Windows: 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition. -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ "Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa." -- Bakunin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] PROBLEM WITH IP ADDRESS
On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 16:01, Nestor Castro wrote: > I hope someone can help me with this, I'm totally newbie on Linux. > > I have a LAN that connects to the internet through a Gateway > xxx.xxx.xxx.10, also in this LAN is a MS Exchange Server xxx.xxx.xxx.16 > which uses this gateway, everyone connected also has access to the internet. > > I recently installed Mandrake 9.2 on my computer and assigned an address > , configured Mozilla and worked just fine, I can send and receive mail, > I can PING my gateway normally and also any other IP address in the LAN, > but when I try to PING my computer from another one it does not answer, > as a result I can`t connect to the Internet. > > > How do I tell LINUX to be seen by others in my LAN, I experimented on > security, but could not find something helpful.. > > I'd appreciate any help.. > > > Nestor It looks to me as you have not defined the DNS server(s) or the gateway. Take a look at /etc/resolv.conf. If every thing looks fine, then verify with "route -n" that you have defined the gateway. Regarding ping, it might be a firewall in 9.2 box blocking them. HTH -- Adolfo A. Bello B. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Make your posts more effective. Learn how at http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MandrakeMove
On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 21:50:03 -0500 Lee Wiggers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Enlighten me. Didn't you see the pr0n? -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ "Well, he might as well have been bombing Denmark." -- Gore Vidal, on the bombing of Afghanistan after 9/11 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kernel_source
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wednesday 10 December 2003 1:50 am, Paul O'Rorke wrote: > I'll be harassing you again tomorrow with details of how your suggestions > went. > > Cheers for now. A reply to this message will be forthcoming off list. Hope that's OK but I think the reason stated below is sufficient explanation? I'll post replies to questions on list, but this is all "personal" stuff and as such we don't need to pollute the bandwidth for everyone else, OK? Keep the "Mandrake relevant" harassment on list though. I don't mind being abused. Not too much anyway. But not in public. lol Peace; Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User #244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 kernel 2.4.22-21mdk 02:19:37 up 1 day, 15:18, 1 user, load average: 0.01, 0.10, 0.14 Visits always give pleasure: if not on arrival, then on the departure. -- Edouard Le Berquier, "Pensees des Autres" -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/1uZqZqvqlrLPr5YRAoSMAKCAw4sUZYwYxBX1AapmWtTORITW6ACgm0W/ Ae1CSlPy3JUZ6pU/qHSrPsg= =s/iz -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] firebird emulation
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wednesday 10 December 2003 1:55 am, anton wrote: > Well, not quite, > The default for MOZ firebird seems to be that when you open a new tab > the focus is NOT put on that tab, though there is an option to change > that. Does anyone know if this is possible in Mozilla? > Cheers > Anton We're _not sure_. Try to open Mozilla and rather than a URL in the address space type about:config Then scroll down until you see this line: browser.tabs.loadInBackground right click it and change the value to true. Does that give you what you want? There are all sorts of user defined configuration options there. I suppose you could also open Mozilla and click the Edit button, then click preferences. You should be looking at the Navigator display, find Tabbed Browsing and select load links in the background or whatever options you're searching for. How's that? Someone told me tonight that newbies like to know how to see the raw form of options so I laid out both here. Satisfied? Have fun! Regards; Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User #244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 kernel 2.4.22-21mdk 02:09:53 up 1 day, 15:08, 1 user, load average: 0.36, 0.23, 0.18 The Beatles: Paul McCartney's old back-up band. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/1uS6ZqvqlrLPr5YRAqrVAJ45sVn8ocCEu5aJJvvMnXL2FERQDQCfXnv7 TG0iwkJ97SCHdaYFFSD5s8w= =mV5w -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] firebird emulation
Well, not quite, The default for MOZ firebird seems to be that when you open a new tab the focus is NOT put on that tab, though there is an option to change that. Does anyone know if this is possible in Mozilla? Cheers Anton Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[2]: [newbie] Sound question this time
John, What *relevant stuff* might that be? :-) I have NO idea what I am doing here remember! I need to know what I am looking for and how to configure it correctly. Can you be a little more specific? -- - Carren Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kernel_source
On December 9, 2003 11:45 pm, Charlie Mahan wrote: A little background info here might be usefull since you are going to so much trouble to help me. :-) Although my email address is from Australia, I've had that for more than 8 years. Since then I've moved to Canada as a landed Immigrant. I live in Nanimo on Vancouver Island and attend college here doing an IT diploma. I've worked in Japan for 5 years doing Wondoze stuff and have been trying to get past the GUI since Mandrake 6.0. (Actually paid for it...) As such I'm thrilled to be doing a full semester on Linux starting next January (had to do W2K Pro this semester, and am sitting my A+ Core Friday, and Network+ next Thursday) My instructor for Linux next semester is quite scathing of Gui's and I am keen to become more than just a disgruntled MS guy - so command line is definitely the order of the day for me. By the way, I actually spent 2 seasons in Alberta doing the 'Patch'. Loved Edmonton, even enjoyed the cold. (redefined cold for me...) So a mirror over here would be appropriate. As such I've held off on the NVIDIA driver and other bits until after tomorrows exam. I get excited at the concept of Open Source and will definitely be taking Mandrake Linux into whatever work I can make for myself after graduation. I am however finding the financial constraints of being a student somewhat restrictive for the time being (especially after the free flow of cash from my time in the patch) - thus the download edition. I really do want to reiterate how much I appreciate the extent of the help you have provided, I feel like I am a part of a community, and with this kind of support am sure I can make the step beyond point and click. I'll be harassing you again tomorrow with details of how your suggestions went. Cheers for now. -- Paul O'Rorke [EMAIL PROTECTED] (school) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (legacy/home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (for MSN messenger) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (for Yahoo messenger) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Sound question this time
Hi Have you looked in /etc/modules.conf to see if the relevant stuff for the alsa driver is in there? Without this the sound card won't work. -- John Willby Registered Linux user number 321644 ICQ: 92791912 Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] YIM: vicarofwibley Linux is like a wigwam - No Gates, no Windows, Apache inside. 08:54:13 up 13 days, 1:17, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[2]: [newbie] Sound question this time
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Derek, Thanks for your suggestions. As far as I can tell from what settings I can find, I don't have anything muted, but I am so new at this, anything is possible! :-) I will copy and paste here what I have posted in another forum also. Some of this I already mentioned in my earlier post, but the rest is new information: I have no sound in Mandrake. I've checked all the settings I can find and nothing seems to be muted. Someone somewhere told me to run: /sbin/chkconfig --list sound which I did and while most of what came up was gobbledeegook to me, one line near the bottom indicated: 0 off 1 off 2 on 3 on 4 on 5 on 6 off I have no idea what this specifically relates to but thought maybe it does mean I do have *something* disabled *somewhere*. According to windows my onboard sound is Advance AC ' 97 audio, however, Mandrake lists it as: ICH4 845G/GL chipset AC ' 97 audio controller In hard drak ... when I look at that listing .. there is a module configuration button available .. there is nothing entered in there when I look and I have no idea whether there should be, or whether I need to enter something in there. You mentioned three *mixers* in your post. Kmix I have found, but not the other two. Where do I find them? If anyone has ANY other ideas or suggestions, I would really appreciate some help with this. TIA. - -- - Carren -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 8.0.2 - not licensed for commercial use: www.pgp.com iQA/AwUBP9bZccqIEIT739NzEQI5SACdF5OjF8dPNPT5BSylGbKYFHevlgMAoOTg J6Q2Z9En8gdrM5spz12StxRZ =23XV -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kernel_source
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tuesday 09 December 2003 11:56 pm, Paul O'Rorke wrote: > Baby steps > > OK let me see if I am grasping what we are doing here. Hope this isn't too > long winded but I'd like to know vaguely what I'm doing here... > > urpmi.removemedia main > > then: > > urpmi.addmedia main > ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandrake/9.2/i586/Mandrake/RPMS > with ../base/hdlist.cz Yeah, that'll work. The effect of both commands is to reconfigure urpmi by removing one software source and adding a different one. One that's closer geographically but may not be any better than the rediris mirror I first gave you for speed etc, but is at least on the same side of the ocean and doesn't link/redirect through a server in Spain. Confused yet? > removed the > http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/Mandrake/updates >/9.2/RPMS/kernel-source-2.4.22-21mdk.i586.rpm site as a source for updates > then added That's not a source, that's a URL to a specific package in the proper directory in the updates tree on the ibiblio.org mirror. Think about what you're trying to add as a "source" here Paul. What you want is the entire updates directory for 9.2 from the Mandrake/updates/9.2/i586/RPMS part of the "tree." OK? That's what you have above for main. Now you need it for updates. > ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandrake/9.2/i586/Mandrake/RPMS > instead? Close. You're missing something though. See below and then try this: urpmi.removemedia updates Are you sure you want to do this from the command line? It may be easier for you to work with the GUI software manager. I'll still show you the command to add the mirror.secsup updates source but you may not be able to click the Mandrake Update icon in the Mandrake Control Centre after 'cause of whatever glitch that was that I posted about earlier. That's OK, you can still do everything from the command line or from rpmdrake. I'll detail the GUI method again below just in case. That mirror isn't totally up to date by the way. It seems none are, all were last synchronized on the 8th. Check for status here: http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/ftp.php The command to add that mirror to software sources: urpmi.addmedia update_source ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandrake/updates/9.2/RPMS/ with ../base/hdlist.cz should get you where you want to be. Now, if you have the .21mdk kernel installed you shouldn't try to install the NVidia drivers against the older (release) kernel. That won't work with the new one but if you boot to the original (.10mdk) kernel it should. You have to install the driver module for every kernel you have installed or you'll get bitten. > If I understand this correctly I now have my Cd's (copied to the hard drive > and added as a local source for convenience) and the two directories on > ftp://mirrors.secsup.org for main and update_source as more up to date > repositories Good planning. I just rsync the entire current release and cooker trees locally, but I may have too much disk space. (-; The reason for main source linking to the tree on the mirror is that the disks weren't complete "copies" of the 9.2 release. Not enough space for that. Now that you've added it you have access to a lot more packages for 9.2 than you could get on disks. There's also contrib which is a whole other pile of available packages but we can do that another time. The reason for update_source is self explanatory; bug fixes, security fixes, version updates. > then: > > urpmi.update --wget -acf updated my URPMI database...? Yes. > > I went ad installed two rpm updates I found listed where you suggested in > rpmdrake under the "by update availability>upgradable" > so far so good Good. > at this point I found two kernel-source packages available in in rpmdrake > under the "Mandrake choices": > > kernel-source-2.4.22-10mdk and kernel-source-2.4.22-21mdk. I assume these > two are available because they match two of the kernels I have (side by > side?) Installing kernel-source-2.4.22-10mdk was then successfully!! Hooray > - definitely making progress here however I still get the following: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ororkep]# urpmi --wget kernel-source > > ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandrake/updates/9.2/RPMS/kerne >l-source-2.4.22-21mdk.i586.rpm Installation failed, some files are missing: > > ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandrake/updates/9.2/RPMS/./ker >nel-source-2.4.22-21mdk.i586.rpm You may want to update your urpmi database This is exceedingly strange Paul. That kernel is there, I just tried the link and it downloaded. Or would have if I hadn't cancelled it. I don't need two copies of it, and I already have one in my local 9.2 tree. > even after doing urpmi.update --wget -acf which produces a lot of > responses, including the lines: > > examining hdlist file [/var/lib/urpmi/hdlist.update_source.cz] > built hdlis
Re: [newbie] kernel_source
Baby steps OK let me see if I am grasping what we are doing here. Hope this isn't too long winded but I'd like to know vaguely what I'm doing here... urpmi.removemedia main then: urpmi.addmedia main ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandrake/9.2/i586/Mandrake/RPMS with ../base/hdlist.cz removed the http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/Mandrake/updates/9.2/RPMS/kernel-source-2.4.22-21mdk.i586.rpm site as a source for updates then added ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandrake/9.2/i586/Mandrake/RPMS instead? If I understand this correctly I now have my Cd's (copied to the hard drive and added as a local source for convenience) and the two directories on ftp://mirrors.secsup.org for main and update_source as more up to date repositories then: urpmi.update --wget -acf updated my URPMI database...? I went ad installed two rpm updates I found listed where you suggested in rpmdrake under the "by update availability>upgradable" so far so good at this point I found two kernel-source packages available in in rpmdrake under the "Mandrake choices": kernel-source-2.4.22-10mdk and kernel-source-2.4.22-21mdk. I assume these two are available because they match two of the kernels I have (side by side?) Installing kernel-source-2.4.22-10mdk was then successfully!! Hooray - definitely making progress here however I still get the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ororkep]# urpmi --wget kernel-source ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandrake/updates/9.2/RPMS/kernel-source-2.4.22-21mdk.i586.rpm Installation failed, some files are missing: ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandrake/updates/9.2/RPMS/./kernel-source-2.4.22-21mdk.i586.rpm You may want to update your urpmi database even after doing urpmi.update --wget -acf which produces a lot of responses, including the lines: examining hdlist file [/var/lib/urpmi/hdlist.update_source.cz] built hdlist synthesis file for medium "update_source" examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.main.cz] found 2707 headers in cache removing 0 obsolete headers in cache write config file [/etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ororkep]# If I run the NVIDIA installer now, do I need to boot to 2.4.22-10mdk instead of 2.4.22-21mdk to do it, and will that mean I still can't use accelerated graphics with the 2.4.22-21mdk kernel? As a side note it took 6 reboots and y to 'check file integrity' with repeated hangings to successfully boot to the new kernel. Is there some other bug fix or update I need to do to get the newer kernel working? I am running an AMD Athalon 2500 with 1024MB RAM and a GeForce FX5200 AGP on an 'ASUS A7N8X Deluxe' mainboard. I do appreciate the patience of my helpers, I'd be lost without your help. Baby steps On December 9, 2003 12:44 pm, Charlie Mahan wrote: > Tuesday 09 December 2003 1:33 pm, Charlie Mahan wrote: > > It may benefit you to have all your software sources other than the CDs on > one mirror. I notice you added the source I posted for main but you use > secsup for updates. Add main there instead. It probably won't matter but > one never knows, correct? > > urpmi.removemedia main > > then: > > urpmi.addmedia main > ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandrake/9.2/i586/Mandrake/RPMS > with ../base/hdlist.cz > > Even if nothing else, consistency is always a "Good Thing®" don't you > think? (-: > > Charlie -- Paul O'Rorke [EMAIL PROTECTED] (school) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (legacy/home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (for MSN messenger) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (for Yahoo messenger) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
